Lol.....you're funny.....you think the American civil war was about freeing slaves ??? Hahahhah.....ahhh.....you're cute:)
If the Democrats had been on the good side in that war, you'd say that yes, it was. But since it was the Republicans who did the right thing, you're obviously looking for other explanations. That's typical liberal; always one more step closer to Baghdad Bob.
It's like when Apple can no longer lie about being a market leader (now that Samsung alone sells more smartphones than Apple, not counting all other droids) so they start claiming to be leaders using some twisted metric, like "longest time spent playing Candy Crush while taking a shit". #1 #1 #1
Ironically, if Apple does comply with the federal request, they should be banned on grounds that their hardware is no longer secure.
Do you know what the request is? They haven't been asked to unlock or hack into iPhones. They've simply been asked to disable the "brick after 10 failed attempts on the pin code" feature on THAT specific device (the one used by the guy who killed 14 people).
And of course iPhones are not mass produced, they are custom built by hand and each device is unique.
And your point is what? They have access to the device itself, it's not as if they wanted to track the guy (who is dead) in an ocean of iPhone users.
Apple CAN do it without hurting all their other customers, so they HAVE to do it.
If the software is created and leaves an Apple clean room, then it really is as bad as people are saying. If the court could give the phone to Apple and allow them to retrieve the contents without returning the device, I'm sure they could satisfy the request, but it's highly unlikely that the government would be willing to do that.
The request is to help them unlock THAT phone. Apple PR is making the jump from there to pretend that it's yet another backdoor, but guess what, the FBI isn't the NSA or the CIA for that matter. They will do morally arguable things (like letting a criminal commit more crimes while they build their case) but they won't break the law to get their man.
Apple should have said: fine get a warrant and let's do it together this time. But no. They decided to use this as a PR stunt, as if they had any fucking care in the world about the privacy of their users that they sell on a daily basis to advertisers. Fuck them. 14 people have been killed by a known terrorist, this is not a nationwide dragnet to spy on people a la NSA.
I've seen idiotic behavior from fanbois before but that's up there for sure.
This whole situation is hilarious. The same people who were crying for more gun control from the feds are now crying because the feds want Apple to unlock the iPhone of a known dead terrorist. Cognitive dissonance much?
Ironically, if Apple does comply with the federal request, they should be banned on grounds that their hardware is no longer secure.
Do you know what the request is? They haven't been asked to unlock or hack into iPhones. They've simply been asked to disable the "brick after 10 failed attempts on the pin code" feature on THAT specific device (the one used by the guy who killed 14 people).
Here's the highlight of your highly convincing political statement:
lame thick skulled republican idiotic Dumb blistering idiot at best
With this verve and all those bullet-proof points I'm sure you're gonna win over lots of people and make them see the light. Thank you for being a beacon of wisdom and intelligence in this world which is unfortunately ridden with people with different opinions than yours (aka the idiots).
The problem is, if they were to start a petition on change.org instead it wouldn't work because people who sign that kind of petition are mostly Apple customers and cognitive dissonance prevents them from blaming Apple no matter what. Same reason why Apple can have one of the worst ecological track record in manufacturing without the greeners complaining.
The purpose of that guy is not to be cost-effective, it's to convey the wishes of the population and nudge legislation accordingly. He's doing his job.
Article One of the United States Constitution establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress.
I suspect that you're talking about the first amendment instead, which is not the same thing at all. Maybe you should learn the basics before quoting the Constitution.
I'm sure all those celebs who got their nude pics leaked agree with you. Because clearly "being secure" is one all-encompassing thing that you can use to bullshit your iPropaganda.
Can't judge the value of an orator by the size of his audience. Otherwise it would imply that Apple makes the best mobile devices and that McDonalds makes the best breakfast food.
Remember that such exploit is merely a way to create zombies, and a huge botnet of thousands and thousands of active zombies can be rented for a few dollars per hour. It's not a very lucrative market when you consider the labor and risk involved.
That explains why those hackers who got caught by the FBI a few years ago were immensely thrilled when they made $7,000 in bitcoins.
Read the article again. The theory of those two "researchers" is that people guess gender based on the username (with an accuracy of less than 60%), not that women put up signs saying "I'm a woman". And based on that guess people are allegedly paying less when it's possibly a woman.
This is ludicrous but at the same time it's a positive thing. It means that as a society we basically ran out of gender-based inequalities (at least those impacting women) to a point where people have to make up bullshit theories based on bullshit numbers to "find" injustices.
In Slashdot summaries I never click when there's 3 or 4 links on 3 or 4 successive words, I'm too lazy. But on this one I advise you to click. It's amazing to see what lurks under that "77 cents on the dollar" statistic.
I'm a penny pincher like my father before me. I drive may cars well past 100,000 miles and 10 years old and I save possibly useful scraps of hardware and cobble useful things like file servers out of it for personal use. But in this case I have a backup system which rivals most commonly used ones in business...
While I disagree with using RAID-5 (for anything) I have to give it to you, it's refreshing to see a thrifty attitude in this world of disposable iPhones and 5-year servers EOL. I would be obscenely wealthy if I had done that in the past instead of blowing money to the four winds.
My drives are not always spinning and routinely are in "power saving" mode most of the time because the file server is not heavily used.
The more I read your comments, the more it reminds me of Michael Scott when he describes Wikipedia: "anyone in the world can write about any subject, so you know you're getting the best possible information". You just bring up bad practice after bad practice and brag about it.
There's a reason why MAID never caught up.
So what did we learn from MAID? We learned that power management is far more difficult and complex than anyone had thought, and powering on and off drives up to 10s of times per day caused a number of reliability issues.
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Lol.....you're funny.....you think the American civil war was about freeing slaves ??? Hahahhah.....ahhh.....you're cute :)
If the Democrats had been on the good side in that war, you'd say that yes, it was. But since it was the Republicans who did the right thing, you're obviously looking for other explanations. That's typical liberal; always one more step closer to Baghdad Bob.
It's like when Apple can no longer lie about being a market leader (now that Samsung alone sells more smartphones than Apple, not counting all other droids) so they start claiming to be leaders using some twisted metric, like "longest time spent playing Candy Crush while taking a shit". #1 #1 #1
I meant simply that getting rid of Congress (as opposed to its current members) would require amending the Constitution.
It could also be done with Stormtroopers. It has been done at least once, a long time ago.
But much more importantly than all of that, the FBI are asking that Apple write the software and then *give the software to the FBI*.
Of course, instead the FBI should Fedex the phone used by a known terrorist to Apple care and let them do it.
Ironically, if Apple does comply with the federal request, they should be banned on grounds that their hardware is no longer secure.
Do you know what the request is? They haven't been asked to unlock or hack into iPhones. They've simply been asked to disable the "brick after 10 failed attempts on the pin code" feature on THAT specific device (the one used by the guy who killed 14 people).
And of course iPhones are not mass produced, they are custom built by hand and each device is unique.
And your point is what? They have access to the device itself, it's not as if they wanted to track the guy (who is dead) in an ocean of iPhone users.
Apple CAN do it without hurting all their other customers, so they HAVE to do it.
And once that is possible, it will be done on the next 10, 20, 50, 100 devices.
You're swimming in that same logic that anti-gay marriage people have (it starts with two men, what's next, a man and a child?).
Get real. This is serious shit, be a SJW another day.
If the software is created and leaves an Apple clean room, then it really is as bad as people are saying. If the court could give the phone to Apple and allow them to retrieve the contents without returning the device, I'm sure they could satisfy the request, but it's highly unlikely that the government would be willing to do that.
The request is to help them unlock THAT phone. Apple PR is making the jump from there to pretend that it's yet another backdoor, but guess what, the FBI isn't the NSA or the CIA for that matter. They will do morally arguable things (like letting a criminal commit more crimes while they build their case) but they won't break the law to get their man.
Apple should have said: fine get a warrant and let's do it together this time. But no. They decided to use this as a PR stunt, as if they had any fucking care in the world about the privacy of their users that they sell on a daily basis to advertisers. Fuck them. 14 people have been killed by a known terrorist, this is not a nationwide dragnet to spy on people a la NSA.
publicly execute David Jolly
I've seen idiotic behavior from fanbois before but that's up there for sure.
This whole situation is hilarious. The same people who were crying for more gun control from the feds are now crying because the feds want Apple to unlock the iPhone of a known dead terrorist. Cognitive dissonance much?
Ironically, if Apple does comply with the federal request, they should be banned on grounds that their hardware is no longer secure.
Do you know what the request is? They haven't been asked to unlock or hack into iPhones. They've simply been asked to disable the "brick after 10 failed attempts on the pin code" feature on THAT specific device (the one used by the guy who killed 14 people).
Yeah, like those rich slaves that Abraham Lincoln fought for. The bastard.
Here's the highlight of your highly convincing political statement:
lame
thick skulled republican
idiotic
Dumb
blistering idiot at best
With this verve and all those bullet-proof points I'm sure you're gonna win over lots of people and make them see the light. Thank you for being a beacon of wisdom and intelligence in this world which is unfortunately ridden with people with different opinions than yours (aka the idiots).
The problem is, if they were to start a petition on change.org instead it wouldn't work because people who sign that kind of petition are mostly Apple customers and cognitive dissonance prevents them from blaming Apple no matter what. Same reason why Apple can have one of the worst ecological track record in manufacturing without the greeners complaining.
The purpose of that guy is not to be cost-effective, it's to convey the wishes of the population and nudge legislation accordingly. He's doing his job.
Why are we paying people to ponder such things??
Article I of the US Constitution.
According to Wikipedia:
Article One of the United States Constitution establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress.
I suspect that you're talking about the first amendment instead, which is not the same thing at all. Maybe you should learn the basics before quoting the Constitution.
I'm sure all those celebs who got their nude pics leaked agree with you. Because clearly "being secure" is one all-encompassing thing that you can use to bullshit your iPropaganda.
Can't judge the value of an orator by the size of his audience. Otherwise it would imply that Apple makes the best mobile devices and that McDonalds makes the best breakfast food.
What about a simple streamer cartoon then?
http://www.plasticbrickautomat...
(NSFW)
Aging Indian points at reactor: "Shit, down by bird droppings!"
Maybe timothy needs an Mozilla add-on which the allow him to write not poor summary, the reason is because he is bad writer.
Remember that such exploit is merely a way to create zombies, and a huge botnet of thousands and thousands of active zombies can be rented for a few dollars per hour. It's not a very lucrative market when you consider the labor and risk involved.
That explains why those hackers who got caught by the FBI a few years ago were immensely thrilled when they made $7,000 in bitcoins.
We need a revolutionary workers party that Lenin and Trotsky would call their own.
No! What we need is an all powerful nationalistic dictator who can "feel" terrorism and wave his satanic wand and do dark magic to fix everything!
TRUMP/PALIN 2016
TRUMP/PALIN FOREVER!!
What's awesome is how disconnected from the truth your comment is.
How is life on planet angry loon?
this is the worst thread I've seen on Slashdot this year, I had to be part of it.
#WorstOf2016SoFar
Read the article again. The theory of those two "researchers" is that people guess gender based on the username (with an accuracy of less than 60%), not that women put up signs saying "I'm a woman". And based on that guess people are allegedly paying less when it's possibly a woman.
This is ludicrous but at the same time it's a positive thing. It means that as a society we basically ran out of gender-based inequalities (at least those impacting women) to a point where people have to make up bullshit theories based on bullshit numbers to "find" injustices.
In Slashdot summaries I never click when there's 3 or 4 links on 3 or 4 successive words, I'm too lazy. But on this one I advise you to click. It's amazing to see what lurks under that "77 cents on the dollar" statistic.
That is a fucking MASSIVE error level to apply to your stats.
And on top of that, they assume that people DO guess gender when they buy.
Institutionalized clickbait, that's all this is.
I think I would also be willing to pay less for a product if the seller self-identified as female.
You should do the opposite, and there's a simple reason for that. According to mises.org (linked in the summary):
Men make up 93 percent of workplace fatalities
So you are more likely to receive your item if it's sold by a woman, since she's less likely to die before shipping it than a male.
I'm a penny pincher like my father before me. I drive may cars well past 100,000 miles and 10 years old and I save possibly useful scraps of hardware and cobble useful things like file servers out of it for personal use. But in this case I have a backup system which rivals most commonly used ones in business...
While I disagree with using RAID-5 (for anything) I have to give it to you, it's refreshing to see a thrifty attitude in this world of disposable iPhones and 5-year servers EOL. I would be obscenely wealthy if I had done that in the past instead of blowing money to the four winds.
My drives are not always spinning and routinely are in "power saving" mode most of the time because the file server is not heavily used.
The more I read your comments, the more it reminds me of Michael Scott when he describes Wikipedia: "anyone in the world can write about any subject, so you know you're getting the best possible information". You just bring up bad practice after bad practice and brag about it.
There's a reason why MAID never caught up.
So what did we learn from MAID? We learned that power management is far more difficult and complex than anyone had thought, and powering on and off drives up to 10s of times per day caused a number of reliability issues.
http://www.infostor.com/index/...